Intelligence Test -- Christopher Dickey, Newsweek
With dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen collapsed or collapsing, America’s spies have lost many of their most valued allies in the war against the jihadists.
Among American spies there’s more than a little nostalgia for the bad old days. You know, back before dictators started toppling in the Middle East; back when suspected bad guys could be snatched off a street somewhere and delivered to the not-so-tender mercies of interrogators in their home countries; back when thuggish tyrants, however ugly, were at least predictable.
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My Comment: A sobering assessment on weakening U.S. intelligence efforts in the Arab world. A part of me is telling me that U.S. intelligence officials are trying to cover their rear-end in case something goes wrong like a successful terror attack against the U.S. mainland ..... but another part is telling me that their concerns are actually justified, and that U.S. intelligence efforts are being severely limited with the changes that are now happening in the Arab world.
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